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Why is gender diversity important to Standard Chartered Bank?

Standard Chartered Bank’s main footprint is in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and in most of these regions women have not been able to get to a position where their full potential can be realised. Obviously that has an impact on the entire society and social environment. One of our roles as a responsible player in these markets is to create that development within the wider communities in which we operate. And we think that getting gender diversity right in those markets is economically quite powerful. So there is at the end our own interest as well. We have approximately 75,000 people employed across 70 markets. Our primary objective is to ensure that we get and realise the full potential across as broad a spectrum of people in the areas where we do business.

What is your end goal?

Our final destination is really that the workforce in the Bank should resemble as closely as possible our customer and community profile.

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